Solomon mendelsohn



(No Model.)

s. MENDELSOHN.

SHIRT.

No. 350,070. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

WITNESSES- INVERTER UNITE STATES I ATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON MENDELSOHN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,070, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed August 20, 1883. Serial No. 104,263. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON MENDELsonN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of shirts, and more particularly to an improved manner of constructing the neckband of the shirt in such a manner as to prevent the base of the collarbutton placed at the back of the neckband for the purpose of securing the collar in position from coming in contact with the neck of the wearer. This object I attain by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front View showing the upper part of a shirt having my improvement ap plied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a rear View of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the inner end of the neck band, showing the stud-receiving flap pushed back and ready for the reception of the stud. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the same, showing the stud in position.

Similar letters of reference are used to indicate like parts throughout the several figures.

The material of which the neckband A is formed is cut in the usual way and manner, and the various thicknesses of cloth are attaehed together at the top edge, as has heretofore been the practice. The main portion of the lower edge of the neckband is united to the body of the shirt B in the usual manner; but as I approach the end of the neckband which is intended to rest next to the person of the wearer I only attach to the body of the shirt thatportion of the neckband which forms the inside half of the said band, while the outside edge, d, of the same is left free and disconnected from the shirt-body for a short distance--say one and one-half inch from the extreme inner end of the ueckbaudforining a kind of pocket, 0, which is stitched at the top and outer end by the line of stitching I) Z), which connects the inside and outside half of the neckband, and also by a line of stitching, a, at the inner end of the pocket. This partially disconnected or flapped portion of the neckband is provided with a button-hole, c, placed close to the line of stitching b, against which the base-plate of the stud may press when inserted in the button-hole, and thus a great deal of the usual strain upon the buttonlrole is removed, and it is rendered more f durable. The side of the pocket next the wearer is perfectly smooth and flat, there being no projections ofany kind whatsoever, and when the collar-button is inserted into the rear of the neckband the base-plate of the same will rest against the inside half of the neckband or pocket and be completely removed from all possibility of contact with the neck of the wearer, and, by presenting no superimposed thicknesses of cloth, offers no obstruction to the smoothing-iron.

I am aware that a fly has heretofore been attached by stitching on three sides thereof to the inner side of the neckband at one end, a button-hole being provided for the passage of the stud or collar-button and the parts so arranged as to prevent the base of the stud or collar-button from coming in contact with the neck. This, however, I do not claim. It will be understood that by my in vcntion the pocket provided for the base of the collar-button is formed integral with the neckband byleaving a portion of the lower edge of the outer thick ness of the neckband unstitched. My improved stud -receiving pocket is therefore more durable, less liable to become frayed or worn under the hard usage of the laundry, and offers no obstruction to the smoothingiron, because its construction does not involve the employment of sup rimposed pieces of cloth, as heretofore required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shirt in which the neckband is composed of two or more continuous plies or thicknesses of fabric, the outer ply only being provided with a button or stud hole. all the plies of the said neckband being stitched to the body of the shirt at the neck-openii'ig, except that portion of the outer ply which is below the button-hole therein, whereby a button or stud pocket is formed having a downwardly-opening mouth, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

SOLOMON MENDELSOHN. [L. s.]

\Vitnesses:

' WILMER BRADFORD,

CHAS. E. KELLY. 

